Dear self,

I am not afraid of death or losing the home or possessions.
Life has reached beyond all this, thanks to the spiritual maturity and some divine experiences. Realized value of life is more than fear of death.
Every moment in life comes with an option – whether to live or to let the life slip out of hand. Every external input is challenging us to either fight for life or give up. These are your tests to examine how committed you are to living.
Every stage in life we are committed to something other than living. We are trying to find life in some external aspect. And when each of this focus poses a challenge to us sometime or the other. It forces us to ask what is more important? Letting this focus be  more important or letting go of it and getting back to living is more important!
We try to fight life thinking that our external focus at that stage – career, parents, family, home, marriage, children, job, public image, social status, property, possessions, and all those 100 thousand things in which we have been investing our life is more important. We think if we don’t protect them, we will lose life. This makes us hurt, pain, stress, angry, frustrated, helpless but we don’t stop. Because we are strong. We encourage ourselves by saying “fighting for life” is the right spirit. But in the whole process, life keeps slipping out of the hands. And then if we are lucky (yes lucky/blessed) we suddenly realize that life is right here, within me, with or without all those aspects I am still living. To live I don’t need anything. Life exists as long as I live. Fire or floods, Tsunami or Earthquake, it can’t take my life away from it if I decide to live. It’s in this moment we let everything else be released and start living.

Human spirit is seeing that to live I don’t have to struggle. I am neither a survivor, nor a conqueror. I am a traveller of this beautiful journey of life. I am the sole creator of my life and the world that revolves around me.

Feeling gratitude for life and all those beautiful gifts this life has brought to me.